"Oddjob Oddjob (often written as ""Odd Job"") is a fictional character in the espionage novels and films featuring James Bond. He is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the 1959 James Bond novel ""Goldfinger"" and its 1964 film adaptation. In the film, he was played by the Japanese-American actor and professional wrestler Harold Sakata. Oddjob, who also appears in the ""James Bond"" animated series and in several video games, is one of the most popular characters in the Bond series. Oddjob's real name is unknown. He is named by Goldfinger to describe his duties to his employer. A"
"television show ""MythBusters"" tested out the capabilities of Oddjob's hat, testing whether or not it would have been able to decapitate a stone statue. It failed to do so, and the Mythbusters ultimately labeled it 'Busted'. Oddjob's lethal hat was ranked tenth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll for the most popular movie weapon, which surveyed approximately 2,000 films fans. Oddjob Oddjob (often written as ""Odd Job"") is a fictional character in the espionage novels and films featuring James Bond. He is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the 1959 James Bond novel ""Goldfinger"" and its 1964"
"Sakata had secured the role of Oddjob, another former wrestler, British actor Milton Reid, had auditioned for the role. In 1964 Reid challenged Sakata to a wrestling contest and suggested that the winner ought to get the role. However, given that Reid had been in ""Dr. No"" and that his character had been killed off, the producers decided to go with Sakata and the wrestling match did not take place. As Oddjob, he was bodyguard to Bond villain Auric Goldfinger and his sharpened, steel-brimmed bowler hat became a famous and much-parodied trademark of the Bond series. While filming Oddjob's death"
"nothing to assuage his stance. Oddjob is also an expert with a bow and arrow and can throw his razor-edged bowler hat with deadly accuracy. He has a cleft palate that caused a speech defect, rendering his speech unintelligible to everyone except Goldfinger. In addition to killing people who might cause trouble for Goldfinger, Oddjob functions as his personal guard, chauffeur, and manservant (though not his golf caddy, as depicted in the film). He has a taste for cats as food, apparently acquired in Korea when other food was in short supply. Bond frames Goldfinger's yellow cat for destruction of"
"and film, Goldfinger is aided in his crimes by his manservant, Oddjob, a mute, monstrously strong Korean who ruthlessly eliminates any threat to his employer's affairs. Goldfinger is the owner of ""Enterprises Auric A.G."" in Switzerland, maker of metal furniture, which is purchased by many airlines including Air India. Twice a year, Goldfinger drives his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost car from England to Enterprises Auric. Bond learns that Goldfinger makes dead drops of gold bars for SMERSH along the way, and that his car's bodywork is 18 carat (75%), solid white gold under the ploy that the added weight is"
"Goldfinger (film) Goldfinger is a 1964 British spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character Auric Goldfinger, along with Shirley Eaton as the iconic Bond girl Jill Masterson. ""Goldfinger"" was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The film's"
"before entering Fort Knox. The fourth time, as Bond electrocutes him in Fort Knox, he yells out a final long, loud ""Arrgh!"". Oddjob acts as Goldfinger's personal chauffeur, bodyguard and golf caddy. He wears a Sandringham hat (unlike in the novel, where he wore a bowler) with a sharpened steel rim, using it as a lethal weapon in the style of a chakram or a flying guillotine. It was shown to be very powerful, capable of cutting through steel and decapitating a stone statue. He later uses it to kill Tilly Masterson by breaking her neck. Physically, Oddjob is extremely"
"dwarf. This error was possibly due to the programmers confusing him with another Bond henchman, Nick Nack. In ""Nightfire"", he can use his hat as a unique throwing weapon that returns after 30 seconds. Oddjob is also a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 remake game ""GoldenEye 007"" for the Wii. The prop used in ""Goldfinger"" by Oddjob was made by British hat makers, Lock & Co. The hat was then adapted by inserting a chakram into the brim. John Stears was responsible for making the hat fly. After ""Goldfinger"", the hat came into the possession of the James Bond"
"Oddjob, Auric Goldfinger's enforcer, carries a bowler hat with a razor-sharp blade concealed in the rim, while Xenia Onatopp is known to crush victims to death with her thighs during intercourse. In addition to these weapons, many of the henchmen are physically different; the over-large Tee Hee had an iron claw, Jaws, an assassin with steel teeth, was played by 2.18m (7'2"") actor Richard Kiel, whilst Renard (the henchman to the main villainess Elektra) survived being shot in the head, which progressively killed off his senses and his ability to feel pain. Many of Bond's adversaries meet their deaths at"
"Korean, like all of Goldfinger's staff, he is extremely strong, as shown in one sequence where he breaks the thick oak railing of a staircase with karate chops of his hand and shatters a mantel with his foot. When Bond expresses surprise at these feats, Goldfinger explains that Oddjob trains extensively to toughen the striking surfaces of his hands and feet, which have developed a tough callus which significantly increases his striking power. Oddjob is described as being a ""squat"" man with ""arms like thighs"" and black teeth. In the contrast with the film where he is depicted as a"
"for Goldfinger, a ruse that Goldfinger initially refuses, but then accepts. Bond and Tilly are subsequently taken to Goldfinger's operational headquarters in a warehouse in New York City. They are put to work as secretaries for a meeting between Goldfinger and several gangsters (including the Spangled Mob and the Mafia), who have been recruited to assist in ""Operation Grand Slam"" – the stealing of the United States gold reserves from Fort Knox. One of the gang leaders, Helmut Springer, refuses to join the operation and is killed by Oddjob. Learning that the operation includes the killing of the inhabitants of"
"his recent killing of a Latin American drug smuggler. Wolf Mankowitz, an un-credited screenwriter on ""Dr. No"", suggested the scene where Oddjob puts his car into a car crusher to dispose of Mr. Solo's body. Because of the quality of work of Maibaum and Dehn, the script and outline for ""Goldfinger"" became the blueprint for future Bond films. Principal photography on ""Goldfinger"" commenced on 20 January 1964 in Miami, Florida, at the Fontainebleau Hotel; the crew was small, consisting only of Hamilton, Broccoli, Adam, and cinematographer Ted Moore. Sean Connery never travelled to Florida to film ""Goldfinger"" because he was"
"Goldfinger introduces Bond to his factotum, a Korean named Oddjob. Issued by MI6 with an Aston Martin DB Mark III, Bond trails Goldfinger as he takes his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost (adapted with armour plating and armour-plated glass) via air ferry to Switzerland, driven by Oddjob. Bond manages to trace Goldfinger to a warehouse in Geneva where he finds that the armour of Goldfinger's car is actually white-gold, cast into panels at his Kent refinery. When the car reaches Goldfinger's factory in Switzerland (Enterprises Auric AG), he recasts the gold from the armour panels into aircraft seats and fits them"
"Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob from ""Goldfinger"", and Baron Samedi from ""Live and Let Die"". Players can customize multiplayer settings before playing. However, one disadvantage to this is that the game will not save the alterations players make to the multiplayer mode. In Paris, James Bond (voiced by Maxwell Caulfield with the likeness of Pierce Brosnan) helps French Intelligence operative Dominique Paradis evade a gang chase while chasing a truck with a stolen nuclear weapon, before continuing in his Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. After preventing the truck from blowing up the Eiffel Tower, Dominique and Bond celebrate New Year's Eve. The"
"Clifton James George Clifton James (May 29, 1920 – April 15, 2017) was an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the ""James Bond"" films ""Live and Let Die"" (1973) and ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974), the sheriff in ""Silver Streak"" (1976), a Texas tycoon in ""The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training"" (1977), as the owner of the scandalous 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team in ""Eight Men Out"" (1988), and earlier in his acting career as a prison floorwalker in ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967). James was born in"
"confinement and obtains a shield to protect him from Oddjob's hats, which he uses to deflect back at him. Notably, in this game Oddjob actually speaks. In the video game """", Oddjob is a henchman of Goldfinger, and initially a companion of GoldenEye. He is killed when GoldenEye tosses him over a rail into a pit inside the Hoover Dam after he turns on his employer and attacks GoldenEye. Oddjob has appeared in the James Bond video games ""GoldenEye 007"" and """" as a playable character for use in multiplayer modes. In ""GoldenEye 007"", Oddjob was mistakenly depicted as a"
"Gert Fröbe Karl Gerhart ""Gert"" Fröbe (; 25 February 1913 – 5 September 1988) was a West German film and stage actor. He is best known in English-speaking countries for his work as Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film ""Goldfinger"", as Peachum in ""The Threepenny Opera"", as Baron Bomburst in ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", as Hotzenplotz in ""Der Räuber Hotzenplotz"" and ""Colonel Manfred von Holstein"" in ""Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"". Fröbe was born in Oberplanitz, today part of Zwickau. He was initially a violinist, but he abandoned it for Kabarett and theatre work. He joined the"
"964,000 copies of ""Goldfinger"" alone. Between the years 1962 to 1967 a total of 22,792,000 Bond novels were sold. The 2012 video game 007 Legends features a level based on Goldfinger. American Film Institute lists Goldfinger (film) Goldfinger is a 1964 British spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character Auric Goldfinger,"
"that they can capture the bomb and prevent the criminals from escaping. Believing the military forces to be neutralized, Goldfinger's private army breaks into Fort Knox and accesses the vault itself as Goldfinger arrives in a helicopter with the atomic device. In the vault, his henchman Kisch handcuffs Bond to the bomb. The troops arise and attack, killing many of Goldfinger's men. Seeing this, Goldfinger locks the vault, takes off his coat, revealing a US Army colonel's uniform, and kills Mr. Ling and several troops, before escaping. Kisch realizes they are trapped and attempts to stop the bomb, but Oddjob"
"pose as doctors to incapacitate crew and passengers (including Bond) with drugged inoculations. Then they hijack the aircraft, carrying 1.5 tons of gold, Goldfinger's total savings. The hijacked airplane is piloted by three German ex-Luftwaffe pilots who work for Goldfinger. Oddjob meets his end when he is sucked through an airliner window after Bond pierces it with a knife. Bond and Goldfinger engage in a brief struggle, during which Bond is seized by a violent rage for the first time in his life, strangling Goldfinger to death with his bare hands. Bond then turns to the pilots and forces the"
"villain from the films ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" and ""Moonraker"", made regular appearances, usually partnered with Nick Nack, a villain from ""The Man with the Golden Gun"", forming a bickering comical duo. Auric Goldfinger also appears, alongside his assistant, Oddjob, from the ""Goldfinger"" film. It is revealed Goldfinger has a teenage daughter named Goldie Finger with equally expensive tastes. Several episode titles parodied the titles of Bond films such as ""Live and Let’s Dance"" and ""Rubies Aren't Forever"". The main characters consist of James Bond Jr., his friends, several featured members of the Warfield Academy staff, and Trevor Noseworthy"
"remained largely unknown in the West even as late as the 1950s; for example, in the 1959 popular fiction Goldfinger, Karate was described to readers in near-mythical terms and it was credible for British unarmed combat experts to be represented as completely unaware of martial arts of this kind. The novel describes the protagonist James Bond, an expert in unarmed combat, as utterly ignorant of Karate and its demonstrations, and describes the Korean 'Oddjob' in these terms: ""Goldfinger said, ""Have you ever heard of Karate? No? Well that man is one of the three in the world who have achieved"
"entire body with gold paint. When Bond meets Goldfinger for a round of golf, Oddjob is seen in full for the first time. He is described by Goldfinger as ""an admirable manservant but mute"". He only has four lines of 'dialogue' throughout the film: in his first line, upon pretending to have found Goldfinger's missing golf ball, he exclaims ""Aha!"". The second time, after killing Tilly Masterson, he instructs his men to dispose of her body by merely pointing at them and saying ""Ah! Ah!"". The third time, he says ""Ah!"" to order Bond to put on a gas mask"
"Bill Goldberg William Scott Goldberg (born December 27, 1966) is an American professional wrestler, actor, football player, and mixed martial artist color commentator. He is known for his time in WWE and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name Goldberg. Goldberg widened his worldwide audience by appearing on various television shows and movies, one of his first major roles was playing the Unisol Soldier 'Romeo' along side Jean-Claude Van Damme in """", in 1999. He has since gone on to appear in various roles from show host to playing himself in ""Family Guy"". Regarded as one of the most"
"Ronnie Watt Ronald Stewart ""Ronnie"" Watt OBE is a Scottish master of Shotokan karate. He is the founder, president and chief instructor for the ""National Karate Institute Scotland"" a member of the World Karate Confederation (WKC). Watt was born on 16 April 1947 in Aberdeen. He started learning karate in 1965, following a serious industrial accident which very nearly left him disabled. His interest in karate was inspired by the character Oddjob in the James Bond film Gold Finger. In his 45-year career as a professional karate instructor, Watt has trained over 20,000 students. On 25 May 2010, on behalf"
"Goldmember Johan van der Smut, better known as Goldmember, is a fictional character in the third film of the ""Austin Powers"" trilogy, ""Austin Powers in Goldmember"". He is played by Mike Myers. The character was partially inspired by the James Bond villain Auric Goldfinger. He serves as one of two main antagonists of the film. Dutch (specifically, from Holland)-born Van der Smut is fascinated with gold. After losing his genitals in an unforunate smelting accident in the 1970s and having them replaced with a solid gold prosthetic, he becomes known as ""Goldmember"". Van der Smut teams up with Dr. Evil"
"Austin Willis Alexander Austin Willis, (September 30, 1917 – April 3, 2004) was a Canadian actor and television host. Austin was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to parents Alexander Samuel and Emma Graham (Pushie) Willis. His older brother, J. Frank Willis, was a radio broadcaster with the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (later the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). In 2002, Austin was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He is best known internationally for his appearance as Simmons, the man whom Auric Goldfinger beats at cards in the opening scenes of the James Bond film, ""Goldfinger"". Originally he was to"
"gimmick, including karateka Masutatsu Oyama as ""Mas Togo"" and judoka Kokichi Endo as ""Ko Togo"") from the early 1950s until the early 1960s, becoming Canadian Tag Team Champion. Bond producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli took notice of Sakata because of his heavy build— he stood 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) and weighed 284 lb (129 kg)—which, when coupled with his intimidating gaze, made him the perfect choice for the part of Oddjob. He had no acting background at all besides pro wrestling but the film character was to be mute and would require little theatrical skill. Before"
"Norbert Növényi Norbert Nottny Növényi (born 15 May 1957) is a Hungarian light heavyweight wrestling Olympic champion of the 1980 Summer Olympics, two times kick-boxing world champion and currently an actor in Hungary. In January 2009, he became the oldest WFCA mixed martial arts world champion. Növényi was born in Budapest. He appeared in a minor role in the Hollywood film ""Red Heat"", which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. He played a Moscow thug named Sasha who was smuggling cocaine in his artificial leg. He played a longer role in Péter Tímár's satire ""Zimmer Feri"" in 1997. He also attended a drama"
"1960s. According to Mallet, she was given the part of Tilly Masterson when someone sent a photo of her in a bikini to Bond producer Cubby Broccoli. The character was killed off during the film when Oddjob (Harold Sakata) hurled his steel rimmed hat at her. Mallet grabbed Broccoli's attention before ""Goldfinger"": she was tested for the lead Bond girl role, Tatiana Romanova in ""From Russia with Love"". Even though her mother is Russian, Mallet did not receive the Russian role, supposedly because of her provincial British accent. This is ironic however, considering that the Italian actress Daniela Bianchi, who"
"Scaramanga, another official of Goldfinger's organization (from which he receives his codename ""GoldenEye""). Scaramanga provides upgrades for the eye, starting with MRI vision. At his first mission at Hong Kong, GoldenEye has to get a sniper rifle to take down Dr. No with the EM hack feature. At the Midas Casino, GoldenEye has to get to the vault to protect the OMEN with the magnetic polarity shield. At the Hoover Dam, GoldenEye has to destroy the dam and kill Xenia Onatopp. GoldenEye also tosses Oddjob over a rail into a pit inside the Hoover Dam after he betrays and attacks"
"Adam Goldberg Adam Charles Goldberg (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. Known for his supporting roles in film and television, Goldberg has appeared in films such as ""Dazed and Confused"", ""Saving Private Ryan"", ""A Beautiful Mind"", and ""Zodiac"". He has also played leading roles in independent films such as ""The Hebrew Hammer"" and ""2 Days in Paris"". His TV appearances include the shows ""Friends"" as Eddie Menuek, Chandler's roommate, ""Joey"", ""Entourage"", ""The Jim Gaffigan Show"", ""The Unusuals"", and his critically acclaimed role as hitman Mr. Numbers in the first season of ""Fargo"". Goldberg was"
"healing magic. It is stated that those within Eragon's society born with this condition are often not allowed to live as they face a very hard life. Cleft lip and cleft palate are often portrayed negatively in popular culture. Examples include Oddjob, the secondary villain of the James Bond novel ""Goldfinger"" by Ian Fleming (the film adaptation does not mention this but leaves it implied); the fanciful portrayal of Roman Emperor Commodus in the 2000 film ""Gladiator"", and serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in the film ""Red Dragon"". Cleft lips and palates are occasionally seen in cattle and dogs, and rarely"